{"id":33277,"date":"2018-04-11T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T00:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=33277"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:30","slug":"team-of-the-week-tac-cup-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/04\/11\/team-of-the-week-tac-cup-round-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Team of the Week: TAC Cup – Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

GIPPSLAND Power’s fantastic win over Bendigo Pioneers has seen them top the table for AFL Draft Central<\/em> Team of the Week<\/strong> nominees, with three players named in our Round 3 side<\/strong>. They were the only side with three nominees, with seven other sides contributed two players, while Calder Cannons, GWV Rebels and Northern Knights all had one nominee.<\/p>\n

Sam Flanders<\/strong> was the AFL Draft Central<\/em> Player of the Week<\/strong> for Round 3<\/strong> and it was no surprise to see him slot into the forward pocket for his strong effort up front in the Power’s big win. Teammates Matthew McGannon<\/strong> (back pocket) and Rylan Henkel<\/strong> (ruck) were also named in the Team of the Week. Alongside Flanders up front is Bendigo Pioneers goalkicker Will Holt<\/strong> who makes it for the second time this season, he is joined in the 22 by half-back Bailey Henderson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Ranges might not have won against the Western Jets, but they had a couple of good defensive efforts in the clash, with Xavier Fry<\/strong> and Jacob Gilbee<\/strong> making the cut for the Round 3 team. Filling out the running backs, Murray Bushrangers’ defender Lachlan Ash<\/strong> made the team for the second time this season, as did teammate Laitham Vandermeer<\/strong> for his efforts on the weekend. Geelong key defender Cooper Cartledge<\/strong> holds down the fort at full-back, with mid\/forward Brayden Ham<\/strong>‘s superb effort on Saturday earning him a place in the team on the half-forward flank.<\/p>\n

There is a distinct Oakleigh feel in the midfield with Noah Anderson<\/strong> and James Rowbottom<\/strong> filling two of the midfield positions, along with Mitch Podhajski<\/strong> (Calder Cannons) and Tom McKenzie<\/strong> (Northern Knights) who were their club’s respective sole nominees in the team. The final midfield place went to Dandenong captain Campbell Hustwaite<\/strong>, who is joined in the team by Zac Foot, fresh off a four-goal performance against the GWV Rebels. Speaking of the Rebels, Lochie Dawson<\/strong>‘s tireless work in the heavy defeat saw him earn a place in the side.<\/p>\n

Moving to the half-forward line, Zak Butters<\/strong> made the team once again for the Western Jets, this time joined in the 22 by midfield dynamo Connor Thar<\/strong>. Alongside Butters is Sandringham Dragons tall James Rendell<\/strong>, who booted four goals to spur his side on to a big second half against the Calder Cannons. Fellow Dragon, Liam Stocker<\/strong>, rounds out the 22 with a place on the interchange.<\/p>\n

As with any side there always bound to be unlucky omissions and in this case, Oakleigh Chargers forward Daniel Scala<\/strong> was the next cab off the rank for a spot in the 22, while taller forward Ben Silvagni<\/strong> was also unlucky. In defence, Ajak Dang<\/strong> and Lachlan Potter<\/strong> both came close for their respective sides in the Murray Bushrangers and Northern Knights, while Dandenong Stingrays ruck\/forward Bailey Schmidt<\/strong> was very unlucky to be just beaten to the ruck position by Henkel.<\/p>\n

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GIPPSLAND Power’s fantastic win over Bendigo Pioneers has seen them top the table for AFL Draft Central Team of the Week nominees, with three players named in our Round 3 side. They were the only side with three nominees, with seven other sides contributed two players, while Calder Cannons, GWV Rebels and Northern Knights all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":33282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7949,8,16],"tags":[235,3879,2092,2089,2785,2254,4116,2987,2069,2783,2207,4007,177,2453,3892,2420,2464,258,3646,2441,96,2521,172,4210,4209,4044,2747,51,3908,3734,2640,3814,2416,4004,2415],"class_list":["post-33277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup","tag-afl-draft","tag-afl-draft-central-team-of-the-week","tag-ajak-dang","tag-bailey-henderson","tag-bailey-schmidt","tag-ben-silvagni","tag-brayden-ham","tag-campbell-hustwaite","tag-connor-thar","tag-cooper-cartledge","tag-daniel-scala","tag-jacob-gilbee","tag-james-rendell","tag-james-rowbottom","tag-lachlan-ash","tag-lachlan-potter","tag-laitham-vandermeer","tag-liam-stocker","tag-lochie-dawson","tag-matthew-mcgannon","tag-mitch-podhajski","tag-noah-anderson","tag-oscar-brownless","tag-round-three-tac-cup","tag-round-three-team-of-the-week","tag-rylan-henkel","tag-sam-flanders","tag-tac-cup","tag-tac-cup-team-of-the-week","tag-team-of-the-week","tag-tom-mckenzie","tag-will-holt","tag-xavier-fry","tag-zac-foot","tag-zak-butters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88184,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277\/revisions\/88184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}